Legal Opinion
Javier Carbajal-Portillo, Rafael Vega-Picos v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 12, 1968No. 21855_1PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
APPEAL OF CARBAJAL-PORTILLO
GRAY, District Judge :
Appellant Javier Carbajal-Portillo (Carbajal) contends that the undisputed evidence shows that, as a matter of law, the offenses he committed stemmed directly from entrapment. We agree.
It appears, from the testimony at the trial, that Carbajal lived near the city of Mazatlan in Sinaloa, Mexico, where he had a family to support and was unemployed and destitute. A man named Osuna offered to pay him $500 if he would carry a package of heroin to Mexicali, a city in Mexico immediately adjacent to the California border, and sell it to a man named…
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